Beverley wrote books, satires and poems mainly on religious themes, but including some on politics, both ecclesiastical[3][4] and temporal,[5] and with at least one foray into biology in which he attacked the then still new Darwinian theory.[6] He also wrote some epic poetry that achieved no lasting acclaim.[7][8] He is mentioned in some other writings of the day, largely in response to his attacks, for example in the Anacalypsis by Godfrey Higgins.[9]

In 1833 he published A letter to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, the chancellor of Cambridge at the time, on what he saw as the then corrupt state of the University. Much of its content was immoderate to a degree that provoked retaliation[10][11] and disapproval, including a rebuff from The Times.[1]

Beverley wrote on a range of other subjects, which often were of a controversial nature. He died at Scarborough on 3 November 1868.